Tony Finch's link log

This page lists some recently popular links.

• 2010-03-02 KV5CY 125 One in four chiropractors under investigation for false advertising because they sued Simon Singh for calling them "bogus".
• 2008-10-16 PQ2MJ 97 Inside the new unibody MacBook Pro.
• 2010-03-01 6PPC2 86 Apple's successor to the iPad.
• 2010-03-03 TD7NF 82 Nicholas Weaver reviews DNScurve and concludes it is catastrophically bad.
• 2010-03-03 WMR82 73 Why DRM doesn't work.
• 2010-03-02 7DMHX 72 Koreans use sausages to control their iPhones in cold weather, because gloved hands don't work.
• 2010-03-09 G2PDN 64 Cambridgeshire County Council enumerates the guided busway screwups that their contractor refuses to fix.
• 2010-03-05 DP5XV 49 There really is a liberal atheist intelligentsia.
• 2010-03-08 F6VTG 48 Scott and scurvy - how, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost.
• 2010-03-01 9VTG2 46 California wages war against the great evil that is flavoured vodka.
• 2010-03-03 WPN9Y 45 What is the worst class/variable/function name you have ever encountered?
• 2010-03-11 CFND8 45 The unspoken British constitution.
• 2010-03-05 J9V27 44 Liberal atheists are not actually much more intelligent than the others.
• 2010-03-09 YGCR2 42 Stack Overflow's best programming jokes.
• 2010-03-04 DDCV2 42 Yorkshireman prosecuted for joking on Twitter about bombs.
• 2010-03-02 RTVL9 41 Quick reference sheet: your rights if you get stopped by the police in the UK.
• 2010-03-02 W6Y7K 40 The Cambridge tartan.
• 2010-03-01 GZ5CD 40 Inside the iPad A4 chip.
• 2010-03-05 ZTHL6 38 Paul Vixie says DNScurve doesn't solve any important problems, whereas DNSSEC does.
• 2010-03-03 LZB6J 36 UK libel law is being used to suppress inconvenient scientific results.
• 2010-03-01 Z2V52 35 ENISA's guide to deploying DNSSEC.
• 2010-03-08 MNP9M 34 The first rule of formal logic club is ...
• 2010-03-08 CWHH8 32 Strobeshnik: a clock hacked together from a hard disk drive.
• 2010-03-09 YMMK8 31 Reddit discusses LuaJIT with its author Mike Pall.
• 2009-12-30 K57C2 31 Brian Krebs has a new web site to replace the Washington Post "Security Fix" blog.
• 2010-03-04 P92K7 30 Apple drops the iPhone patent bomb on HTC.
• 2010-03-10 G28LH 30 A working implementation of Codd's self-replicating cellular automaton - bonkers and amazing.
• 2010-03-07 CJNZ9 30 Jonathan Rees's security kernel based on the Lambda Calculus.
• 2010-03-10 8JBLC 27 The Aegis software configuration management system.
• 2010-03-07 YCG9D 26 YikeBike folding elecric bicycle.
• 2008-04-28 QHGYH 26 Rubik's cube can be solved in 25 moves or fewer (proved by Thomas Rokicki, also known for a hashlife implementation).
• 2010-03-11 GJ57T 26 The 100 most expensive petrochemical accidents.
• 2010-03-04 BT797 26 Kiosk mode on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
• 2010-03-09 2NX2W 26 Does a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?
• 2010-03-02 2DRF9 25 Packrat parsers can support left recursion.
• 2010-03-10 ZZBR6 23 2012 is the centenary of Alan Turing, marathon runner and computer scientist.
• 2010-03-03 665TY 23 DENIC now allows 2LDs to register DS records in their DNSSEC testbed.
• 2010-03-04 2KJCM 20 Guide to creating kiosks on Mac OS X - plus demo app for tweaking the user interface.
• 2010-03-05 ZXCH6 19 Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.
• 2010-03-02 ZBBV6 19 A neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in "Teaching Open Source".
• 2010-03-04 9PP6N 19 How to auto-hide the menu bar and dock on a per-app basis on Mac OS X.
• 2010-03-10 85CNJ 19 Opt-out form for the NHS national health records database.
• 2010-03-03 XYLC8 18 DNSSEC deployment is on track, says Verisign.
• 2002-12-20 1TXWH 17 Confessions of a Local Authority Cycling Officer.
• 2010-03-11 Y222V 16 .ARPA TLD to be signed by 2010-03-18.
• 2010-02-27 PHM5M 11 The Munich taxicab experiment - risk compensation and anti-lock brakes.
• 2010-02-25 PXZ5K 10 Like, Python. (heh)
• 2009-11-17 BHQXJ 8 Securityfix article about donotreply.com.
• 2007-04-25 ZDADD 7 Highly automated RAID box.
• 2009-07-28 K965F 7 The Birthday Calendar: a modest proposal for calendar reform.
• 2010-03-01 TJ9ND 6 Addressing the outmoded swapping and paging strategy in Mac OS X.
• 2009-11-14 T7ZK5 6 Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
• 2009-03-14 B92BY 6 Unusual clock designs.
• 2010-02-25 6ZC5G 6 The film companies keep telling you pirated DVDs are worse, hoping you won't find out they are better.
• 2009-04-10 XTDX9 5 A scientific approach to soft boiled eggs.
• 2007-04-02 XGVAD 5 Information software and the graphical interface.
• 2010-02-24 WBGZ2 5 What is a big salary?
• 2009-09-28 RWP95 5 The US healthcare debate: Jonathan Haidt on how our moral roots skew our reasoning.
• 2010-02-02 JG7P6 5 A discussion about implementing the Game of Life in Haskell.
• 2009-10-16 JG6WL 5 Carter-Ruck still trying to stop Parliament talking about the Minton Report on Trafigura's pollution.
• 2010-02-15 G6FXD 5 Reworking Python's global interpreter lock.
• 2009-12-10 C22KC 5 Preparing k.root-servers.net for a signed root zone.
• 2006-06-28 BWDX3 5 The power of seven.
• 2009-11-24 9XB7L 5 The "Mandelbulb" fractal.
• 2010-01-07 9RHTG 5 Gulf Stream temporarily stopped warming Northern Europe last week.
• 2009-10-09 YRH5B 4 Frank's compulsive guide to postal addresses: effective addressing for international mail from the USA.
• 2010-01-08 V5DC6 4 Google's book scanning technology revealed.
• 2008-12-11 RK0BQ 4 Amazon Web Services IP address ranges.
• 2010-02-23 NZKN6 4 You can be arrested for photography because it is suspicious and anti-social, say the police.
• 2010-02-19 HD7WB 4 How to configure BIND to automatically sign dynamic-update zones for DNSSEC.
• 2009-12-08 DVPD6 4 The Register's units of measurement (2)
• 2009-03-02 C7Y2B 4 The Economist, in Chinese. Just add 240 citizen translators.
• 2010-02-25 BF6TD 4 Using, not losing, your head regarding cycle helmets.
• 2007-08-20 5EZ00 4 Thirteen things to avoid in a blog.
• 2009-03-17 Z2D8T 3 How to get a URL off the Google Safe Browsing list.
• 2009-12-16 Y8NHT 3 Root-DNSSEC.org - information about DNSSEC for the root zone.
• 2010-01-06 XVX7J 3 Unison claims to be "the best usenet browser".
• 2009-12-23 X9V65 3 Apple's loss of ZFS.
• 2009-11-03 WD7NP 3 A Lua libevent binding designed to be a drop-in replacement for copas.
• 2009-07-01 VVKK9 3 Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
• 2006-06-26 VRY7X 3 Rethinking the design of presentation slides.
• 2009-02-17 VC4PK 3 Unusual signs of independent thought from the BCS.
• 2007-10-04 V586E 3 Chad Fowler on the dangers of the big software rewrite.
• 2008-08-14 V1QJT 3 Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test.
• 2006-12-20 U0Q8A 3 A translation of Gregory's Papal Bull on calendar reform.
• 2007-11-09 TZ2Y8 3 Surf.NL Copyright Toolbox.
• 2009-12-16 T6F52 3 Current status of DNSSEC in various TLDs.
• 2009-12-11 RZ8TY 3 A silly shipping forecast. (YouTube)
• 2010-02-23 RTDL9 3 Bjørn Lomborg is a liar and a fraud.
• 2009-12-19 RL2L6 3 Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
• 2008-06-25 R6BHC 3 Plugin pros and cons.
• 2010-02-22 KYZ27 3 USA penalises other countries for supporting open source procurement.
• 2009-11-04 KX7NL 3 Fully countering "Trusting Trust" by diverse double-compiling.
• 2009-10-22 KR6JN 3 Defending your cred against sexist (or otherwise biased) audiences.
• 2009-02-23 KC6WT 3 Implementation errors (buffer overflows, null dereferences, etc.) in NIST SHA competition entries.
• 2009-12-14 JZR9B 3 .US TLD now signed with DNSSEC.
• 2009-10-12 HYGD7 3 Guardian gagged from reporting parliament, in contravention of the 1688 Bill of Rights.
• 2009-03-02 HX5CB 3 Eight design patterns for errorproofing.
• 2009-11-24 HW9VJ 3 The first person to be jailed in the UK for witholding encryption keys.
• 2009-02-03 HP0BD 3 Safe threading for Python, without the global interpreter lock.

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